{"id":6640,"date":"2026-02-02T20:34:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=6640"},"modified":"2026-02-02T20:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:34:39","slug":"sharp-rise-in-malnutrition-cases-preventable-diseases-in-somalia-msf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/02\/sharp-rise-in-malnutrition-cases-preventable-diseases-in-somalia-msf\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp rise in malnutrition cases, preventable diseases in Somalia: MSF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reports a critical health emergency in Somalia, where failed rainy seasons and drastic humanitarian aid cuts are driving a surge in severe malnutrition and preventable diseases. Children are arriving at overcrowded displacement camps in dire condition, suffering from outbreaks of measles, diphtheria, and acute watery diarrhea. The crisis is exacerbated by skyrocketing water prices, which have left many families unable to afford clean drinking water and forced them to use contaminated sources. MSF is calling on the international community to urgently scale up funding and vaccination programs to prevent further loss of life in the climate-vulnerable nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 20, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/1\/20\/sharp-rise-in-malnutrition-cases-preventable-diseases-in-somalia-msf\">aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reports a critical health emergency in Somalia, where failed rainy seasons and drastic humanitarian aid cuts are driving a surge in severe malnutrition and preventable diseases. Children are arriving at overcrowded displacement camps in dire condition, suffering from outbreaks of measles, diphtheria, and acute watery diarrhea. The crisis is exacerbated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":6642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-pandemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6798,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions\/6798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}